Opinion
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Yes, Virginia, Obamacare Is Already Raising Your Insurance Premiums
Opinion -First as a candidate and then as president, Barack Obama repeatedly promised his administration would “have a health care plan that would save the average family $2,500 on their premiums,” with his campaign promising this would be accomplished by the end -
Payroll Tax Cut Another Cynical Vote-Buying Gesture
Opinion -When the federal government’s accumulated debt already tops $15.4 trillion, another $101 billion this year may not sound like much.And when Social Security has a $21. -
Mortgage Deal Hurts Honest Borrowers
Opinion -If you have a home mortgage and have dutifully paid it each month, as you promised you would do when you signed the loan papers, you’re a chump. -
Hawaii Teachers Union Dares Obama Administration to Yank $75 Million Grant
Opinion -Last week, Hawaii teachers revolted against their union leadership, governor, and the Obama administration by overwhelmingly rejecting a contract containing flimsy merit pay and annual evaluations to which they objected. -
Parents Should Heed Ben Franklin’s Vaccination Story
Opinion -New data indicate increasing conflict between parental rights advocates and vaccination experts. To avoid the return of preventable disease, both sides would be wise to begin a more open and educational dialogue with each other. -
Soviet Union’s Fatal Flaw Is Repeated Here
Opinion -Even today, almost exactly 20 years after it happened, Westerners asked to explain the rapid collapse of the Soviet Union tend to serve up theories that flatter preconceived ideological biases. -
Getting the Enron Story Straight
Opinion -The stories about the failure of Enron that appeared in The Wall Street Journal of October 17, 2011 missed out on several interesting points in law and economics. -
Democrats Should Stop Protesting and Start Communicating
Opinion -We may never know exactly what happened between Wisconsin Supreme Court justices David Prosser and Ann Walsh Bradley on that infamous day in June in Bradley’s office. -
Democrats Should Stop Protesting and Start Communicating
Opinion -We may never know exactly what happened between Wisconsin Supreme Court justices David Prosser and Ann Walsh Bradley on that infamous day in June in Bradley’s office. -
Obama Hints at New Mortgage Refinance Program; Expect More Failure
Opinion -President Obama apparently has noticed home mortgage interest rates are at or near record lows. Hints from the White House suggest he may soon announce a new mortgage refinancing program for people who owe more on their loans than their houses are worth. -
Obama Hints at New Mortgage Refinance Program; Expect More Failure
Opinion -President Obama apparently has noticed home mortgage interest rates are at or near record lows. Hints from the White House suggest he may soon announce a new mortgage refinancing program for people who owe more on their loans than their houses are worth. -
Democrats Should Stop Protesting and Start Communicating
Opinion -We may never know exactly what happened between Wisconsin Supreme Court justices David Prosser and Ann Walsh Bradley on that infamous day in June in Bradley’s office. -
Clever Words Sustain the Bloated U. S. Government
Opinion -Politicians live on words. They are the politician’s true currency. It’s no secret the currency is debased nearly to worthlessness because politicians so often act in ways that belie their words.Example: Rep. -
Yellowstone Tragedies
Opinion -During July 2011, I visited Yellowstone National Park. It was a month of disasters. A fly fisherman from Iowa was swept away in the rapidly moving Yellowstone River north of the park on July 14 and was later found dead. -
EAS Program a Complete Taxpayer Waste
Opinion -The Essential Air Service Program, a truly lame-brained government subsidy whose fate played a role in the recent near-shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, deserves its place on the chopping block. -
Obama Grants Himself a Hall Pass from Constitutional Constraints
Opinion -If public schools still emphasized U.S. -
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Heartland Institute Insurance Experts Comment on Hurricane Irene
Opinion -Press Release -Hurricane Irene, the first storm of the 2011 hurricane season to threaten the mainland United States, appears likely to make landfall in the Carolinas sometime in the next few days. -
Internet Shrugged: A Rand Theme for Today
Opinion -Tax Day has arrived. Not coincidentally April 15 also marks the cinematic release of Atlas Shrugged—Part 1. -
Delta House Might Save the Internet
Opinion -The National Journal reported Monday that the White House will likely veto any House attempts to scuttle the FCC’s net neutrality rules:“If the president is presented with a resolution of disapproval that would not safeguard the free and open -
Real NPR Insult: Subsidies
Opinion -The release of filmmaker James O’Keefe’s lunchtime conversation with NPR fundraisers Ron Schiller and Betsey Liley has raised the network’s profile at a most inopportune time, with NPR once again a flashpoint in the budget battles -
Time to End USF Tax
Opinion -Poor government stewardship of taxpayer dollars isn’t anything new, which is why many new revelations of fiscal irresponsibility are met with little but a shrug and an “Oh, well, what are you gonna do?” sense of resignation. -
Big Government’s Next Frontier: Wi-Fi
Opinion -Voters may have slapped Democrats for their spendaholic overreach in November, but Obama was undeterred as he used the small college town of Marquette, Michigan, to advocate more federal intrusion into wireless-Internet infrastructure. -
An FCC Chairman Drunk with Power
Opinion -Still intoxicated by his expansion of the FCC’s regulatory and rulemaking powers in December—when he rammed net neutrality rules into place and forced outrageous concessions from Comcast and NBC Universal before granting his approval for